Reasoning
DeepSeek-V4-Pro
Frontier open-weight DeepSeek model positioned for reasoning-heavy coding, agent, and long-context work.
DeepSeek · DeepSeek
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Best for
Teams comparing frontier-style open-weight reasoning and coding models against hosted closed models.
Who should use it
- Teams comparing frontier-style open-weight reasoning and coding models against hosted closed models.
- Teams with access to hosted inference or server-class deployment paths.
- Developers evaluating coding assistant, repo-editing, and code review workflows.
- Teams testing tool-use, agentic planning, and multi-step workflow behavior.
Common workflows
- Frontier reasoning, coding, agents, long-context workflows
- frontier workflows
- reasoning workflows
- coding workflows
- agents workflows
Deployment and hardware notes
Server-class only for full weights; use smaller DeepSeek distills or hosted endpoints for everyday evaluation.
License and usage notes
MIT / check exact model card. Open weights. Verify the exact model card and license terms for the checkpoint or hosted provider you use.
Strengths
- Open weights model option for DeepSeek workflows.
- Teams comparing frontier-style open-weight reasoning and coding models against hosted closed models.
- Tracked as Frontier 2026 in the OpenSourcesAI model directory.
Limitations
- Very large MoE model; practical deployment usually means hosted inference, enterprise GPUs, or specialized serving infrastructure.
- Server-class only for full weights; use smaller DeepSeek distills or hosted endpoints for everyday evaluation.
- Context window and limits: Up to 1M in DeepSeek docs; verify exact release.
- Verify the exact model card, provider docs, license, and serving support before production use.
Will DeepSeek-V4-Pro run on your machine?
DeepSeek-V4-Pro is 1600B parameters and needs 901.5 GB of VRAM at Q4_K_M — 900 GB of weights plus 1.5 GB of runtime overhead for the inference server itself.
VRAM by quantization
| Quantization | Weights | Needs (with overhead) | Quality |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q4_K_M | 900 GB | 901.5 GB | good |
| Q8_0 | 1600 GB | 1601.5 GB | high |
Fit on common hardware at Q4_K_M
| Hardware | Memory the model can use | System RAM | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| CPU Only | None (CPU only) | 16 GB | Too large |
| RTX 4060 Laptop | 8 GB | 16 GB | Too large |
| RTX 3060 (12GB) | 12 GB | 32 GB | Too large |
| RTX 4060 Ti (16GB) | 16 GB | 32 GB | Too large |
| RTX 3090 | 24 GB | 64 GB | Too large |
| Apple Silicon (Unified Memory) 36 GB | 27 GB of 36 GB | 36 GB | Too large |
| RTX 5090 | 32 GB | 64 GB | Too large |
| Apple Silicon (Unified Memory) 48 GB | 36 GB of 48 GB | 48 GB | Too large |
| Apple Silicon (Unified Memory) 64 GB | 48 GB of 64 GB | 64 GB | Too large |
| Apple Silicon (Unified Memory) 96 GB | 72 GB of 96 GB | 96 GB | Too large |
| Apple Silicon (Unified Memory) 128 GB | 96 GB of 128 GB | 128 GB | Too large |
| Apple Silicon (Unified Memory) 192 GB | 144 GB of 192 GB | 192 GB | Too large |
Comfortable means VRAM clears the requirement by 2 GB or more. Tight means it covers the requirement with no margin. CPU offload means the model does not fit in VRAM but system RAM is at least 1.6× the weights, so it will run at reduced speed — expect roughly 1–5 tokens per second. Figures are weights plus a fixed runtime overhead and exclude KV-cache growth, which scales with context length.
Apple Silicon shares one pool of memory between the system and the GPU, so a model cannot use all of it. These rows apply the same 75% usable fraction the Compatibility Checker uses, which is why a 36 GB Mac is graded on less than 36 GB.
VRAM fit by quantization level
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